farmdoc's blog post number 166

My friends Janet and Annie, who live in Deloraine, own a shack on a few acres near Mole Creek. Last Tuesday as I was settling down to breakfast, the phone rang. Janet breathlessly explained she’d arranged to help unload a truck delivering building materials to the shack, but her car battery was flat. Within 45 seconds I was on my way. The truck arrived 10 minutes after I did, and the unloading was easy. But when the driver went to turn the truck – still heavily loaded with goods for other deliveries – around, it sank into mushy grass. Yes, we've had a lot of rain lately. The usual tricks like putting boards behind the wheels failed because the truck was too heavy and too bogged. So I drove off seeking a tractor. Luckily Sally, a local dairy farmer, was driving hers along the road nearby, and when I explained the situation she unhesitatingly followed me to the bogged truck. Though her tractor’s a 2WD, being big it easily pulled the truck out. I was delighted to help Janet and to return her June favour to me. Last Tuesday’s quote on Farmdoc’s Blog was from Samuel Taylor Coleridge (pictured): ‘Who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one ’. I have few friends. I try to be a good friend to each of them.